Zerotier. They have their own protocol, and there’s a free tier that lets you connect up to ten machines to make a network.

Also possible to selfhost, although I haven’t done it.

I talked with my mother about this years ago. She confidently said, if you give people free money, nobody will do any work. I argued but she wouldn’t budge.

She is now comfortably retired, and makes hats with her time, and sells them. But that’s different.

“Come in!”

I met a guy with Indian parents, but he was born and lived in the USA. I asked if that meant he was an American Indian. Nobody would answer me.

Have you seen the trade deals the us is trying to push on countries?